I do not have much information about CRY before 1986. If you do, please forward to me at carlietree@gmail.com.

---I believe the first CRY Festival was held around 1976 at Culver Stockton College.---Larry Brown and Michael Crouch were very active song leaders and gave much leadership and other talents to CRY. Larry and Michael wrote many songs early on such as Everybody Loves Butterflies" (Crouch, 1979), "We are One" (Crouch 1980), "CRY Shalom" (Brown, 1982), and "Call it Koinonia" (Brown, 1984).